Global Citizenship Fellowship Quarterly Update

October 1–December 31, 2016

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Quarter two led Fellows to further engage- ctober is the greatly anticipated Trick-or- ments and awareness-raising on child trafficking Treat for UNICEF season, and this year in the United States and around the world — four the U.S. Fund for UNICEF celebrated college campuses also participated in our Shut Oits 66th anniversary! Millions of children, Out Trafficking program. Club members and teachers, young professionals, volunteers and leaders, from high school and college, came communities across the United States have gone together through regional club meet-ups led by door to door, and around their neighborhoods, each Fellow. Our 14 Congressional Action teams calling out, “Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF!” The continue to meet monthly through the leadership annual tradition of Kids Helping Kids® — involving of the Fellows and engage local government donations big and small — has helped to raise officials on behalf of UNICEF. more than $175 million since 1950. USF’s 18 Quarter two was one of our more Fellows in 12 cities activated schools, teachers, impactful to date — with 51,503 constituent communities and volunteers to take action touchpoints spanning Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF (with their little orange boxes) to put children first, presentations to Shut Out Trafficking events and engaged more than 33,000 constituents. around the country.

Volunteers, students, children and schools all coming together to Trick-or-Treat

for UNICEF. CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT © U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF/CROSS; UNICEF/LOPEZ; UNICEF/CURBELO Top right: Monster Mayhem at the Kathi, in the Children’s Museum of Houston infamous Trick-or- This year, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF partnered Treat for UNICEF with the Children’s Museum of Houston for a box, along with dedicated Houston month of Monster Mayhem! Kathi Ackerman volunteers during Porter, Houston Fellow, and her fearless team of the Monster volunteers dressed in their Halloween best to Mayhem event. teach children and parents about UNICEF’s Bottom left: Laylah lifesaving work around the world. Young Trick-or- (left) and the Miami Treaters eagerly colored pumpkin-shaped Congressional messages about global citizenship, while sharing Action Team meet with U.S. their favorite things about being a child. Parents Congressman Carlos happily put together those iconic boxes from Curbelo (center). their youth. One sentimental father exclaimed, “I don’t remember much about third grade, but I do remember putting together that little orange box.” Sixty-six years later, the UNICEF collection box still embodies hope for the world’s children.

Our Stories Propel Our Movement The Miami Congressional Action Team (CAT) is comprised of many individuals who have seen firsthand the realities children face around the Representative Carlos Curbelo. During the world. These memories propelled them to take a meeting, Curbelo and the Miami CAT happily constructive approach to social change, on behalf expressed the reality of the diverse community of children, through advocacy and civic in Miami and suggested how that gives us the engagement. opportunity to be leaders in our local and global Shared narratives inspired a productive communities. dialogue regarding the continued support of the Students from Florida International Reach Every Mother and Child Act and UNICEF University and Cypress Bay High School are appropriations during their meeting with proud participants and leaders in the Miami CAT for UNICEF USA. These students inspired a renewed sense of passion and inspiration for Representative Curbelo and solidified a promise for continued support for UNICEF. “When we share our stories, what it does is, it opens up our hearts for other people to share their stories. And it gives us the sense that we are not alone on this journey.”

D.C. Sorority Members Illuminate the Realities of At this year’s annual U.N. Day celebration, the joint D.C. graduate chapters of the historically Black Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. chose to bring attention to the issue of human trafficking abroad and in our backyard. The event began with an introduction by Rachel Pittman, Membership Director of UNA-USA, who applauded the sorority’s long-standing partnership with UNA-USA and

their commitment to raising awareness and BOTTOM: © U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF/MATTHEW; TOP: UNICEF/SMITH

2 Top left: New York Regional Club Meet-Up (Left to right) Since September, UNICEF Clubs have been Jacqueline McGeln, recruiting new students to their clubs, 1st Vice President fundraising for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, and Alicia Koku, Member, Xi Zeta planning Snowflake balls, and organizing their Omega Chapter, student bodies during Hurricane Matthew and Alpha Kappa Alpha the Syrian refugee crisis. During these months Sorority, Inc. students also expressed a need for a regional at UN Day 2016. club meet-up to collaborate with students Bottom: across the region. (Front center) As a result, in December, Tori Curbelo, New Tori and High School Clubs York Fellow, Allison Casey, High School Clubs and Campus funds for humanitarian issues around the world. Fellow, and Julia Dickhaus, Campus Initiative Initiative members. Next, Washington, D.C. Fellow, Joy Robertson Fellow hosted 17 students from Horace Mann, (herself a member of the sorority), gave an University of Bridgeport, Science Park High introduction to the filmNot My Life — which School, Baruch College, St. John’s University, displays child exploitation on five continents Edison High School and High School of Fashion through an astonishing array of practices that Industries. include forced labor, domestic servitude, Tori, Allison and Julia were able to equip the begging, , sexual violence and club members who serve as leaders on campus children in armed conflict. and in their clubs with information on UNICEF’s After screening the film, a panel of experts history, their work and programs around the in human trafficking, including Anna Patrick of the world, and allowed students to raise any Department of State’s Office to Monitor and questions — as many of them are often asked Combat Trafficking in Persons, Sarah Bendtsen questions about UNICEF’s work. from Shared Hope International, and Shamere Students stepped into the role of UNICEF McKenzie of Sun Gate Foundation, as well as field-workers as they divided into teams for a Joy, spoke on the current state of affairs of measles outbreak simulation. The exercise trafficking domestically and internationally. provided helpful insight on scenarios UNICEF Through Not My Life and the panel field-workers deal with on a daily basis. discussion, participants in the U.N. Day program At the end of the day one student said, received a sobering dose of reality on the way “I loved that everyone here was passionate we fail children around the world, but also about UNICEF and their own involvement in their tangible ways to advocate for and protect clubs ... I felt connected with others who were trafficked children. interested in helping out others as well.” n BOTTOM: © U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF/CASEY; TOP: UNICEF/ROBERTSON

3 Program Activity — Quarter Two The Global Citizenship Fellowship brings together networks of volunteers, faith-based communities, schools, universities, advocates, elected leaders and others who educate, advocate and fundraise on behalf of UNICEF in the United States. These engagements are tracked and accounted for in the Winning Hearts and Minds approach. 67,285 51,503 40,434 33,312 32,707 Total number Total constituent Students reached Constituents New informed of constituent touchpoints for Q2 through direct engaged through supporters touchpoints engagement Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

10,206 5,411 3,114 2,677 2,415 Constituents Constituents reached Constituents Global Cause Constituents engaged through through volunteer engaged through Partnerships engaged through general global engagement educational resources touchpoints volunteer recruitment education or training

Class of 2016 U.S. Fund for UNICEF Global Citizenship Global Citizenship Fellowship Fellows Leadership Team Spencer Bailey, Nashville Kristi Burnham, Vice President, Community Engagement Allison Casey, High School Clubs Taruna Sadhoo, Director, Global Citizenship Fellowship Laylah Copertino, Miami Whitney Johnson, Deputy Director, Global Citizenship Fellowship Whitney Cross, Mandy Sharp-Eizinger, Manager, Global Citizenship Fellowship Edgar Cruz, End Trafficking Danielle Goldberg, Deputy Director, Community Mobilization Stephany Cruz, Seattle Emily Pasnak-Lapchick, Manager, End Trafficking Project Tori Curbelo, New York City Laura Restrepo, Manager, Youth Engagement Julia Dickhaus, Campus Initiative Donia Quon, Assistant Director, UNICEF Next Generation Cambria Findley-Grubb, Hannah Gould, End Trafficking Bridget Harvey, UNICEF Next Generation Chandni Jain, San Francisco Emiliana Lopez-Echeverri, Dallas To learn more, contact: Jessica Morris, Boston The Global Citizenship Fellowship Kathi Ackerman Porter, Houston U.S. Fund for UNICEF Kelly Procida, Constituent Engagement 125 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038 Ruhi Rahman, Atlanta [email protected] Joy Robertson, Washington, D.C. (800) 367-5437

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works in 190 countries and territories to put children first. UNICEF has helped save more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization, by providing health care and immunizations, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF supports UNICEF’s work through fundraising, advocacy and education in the United States. Together, we are working toward the day when no children die from preventable causes and every child has a safe and healthy childhood. For more information, visit www.unicefusa.org.

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